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If the name is the landlord's IP, he probably can continue to trade on it. Charleen and Pavle will be successful under any name, I'm sure. I don't know about the rest of you, but I first heard of FnB by word of mouth and I'm sure most people will know that the "new" FnB will be hot garbage without those two.

A big problem is the value built up in the name. They have won several national and local awards, so people who use those awards to track them down are going to the wrong place.

Second, the people who heard about them via word of mouth, like you, are likely not going to hear about the switch. So they'll have the same issue of going to "that one place we keep hearing about" and having it not be the same.

Pavle and Charlene worked for three years to build the rep they have at FnB. The name and brand has value because of their hard work. Yes, some people will follow them wherever they go, but they should not have one of the key assets they created taken away from them.

The law cares about what you can prove, not what you think. Unless Kasperski has some type of documentation that demonstrates he owns the name (i.e. the lease states that he owns the name), I think he'll have a hard time proving it's his. Being a landlord doesn't give you rights to the tenant's business name. I haven't seen anything that shows he's personally used the name for business purposes so I don't think he has any trademark rights in the name FnB.